Kuopion takana: Kolminäytöksinen huvinäytelmä

Set in a provincial parsonage, the play follows household tensions as a conservative clergyman, his family, and the assistant engaged to their daughter confront shifting attitudes about women's roles, courtship, and social respectability. The assistant's rural moralism collides with city influences brought by an educated young woman, prompting arguments over obedience, duty, and personal freedom. Domestic quarrels, matchmaking pressures, gossip, and satiric exposure of small‑town hypocrisy propel the action, and characters face choices that test loyalties and reveal intergenerational conflicts. The three acts blend comic situations with earnest debate about gender, authority, and communal norms.